http://sidehustleblogging.com Blogging tips for those looking for a side hustle Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Carlos writes for Applied Analytics, where he tries to convince people that web analytics is cool by showing bloggers and small-business owners how to use it for their own nefarious purposes. By now you should already know: writing guest posts is a key way of exposing you and your site to ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/using-google-analytics-to-target-guest-posts/ I admit to being far from an expert when it comes to search engine optimization.  It's one of those things I always promise myself to learn more about, but never seem to get around to.  However, over the last couple years I have managed to pick up a few nuggets ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/optimizing-titles-search-engines/ A reader recently wrote in with the following question about advertising. I just had someone contact me inquiring as to the price of a box ad in my right-hand sidebar.  I have no idea what is a reasonable price.  What would be a reasonable amount? Most advertisers interested in banner advertising are ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/how-much-to-charge-for-banner-advertising/ I recently ran across a link to this post from a couple months ago at Saving To Invest (I missed it the first time around). The post discusses how much bloggers make, and attempts to put some numbers to it by applying a few assumed formulas to known traffic numbers.  ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/how-much-money-do-bloggers-make/ One of the more time consuming posts for bloggers is the roundup post. A collection of link favorites seems easy enough to the untrained eye, but until you sit down to actually create a few of these posts you cannot appreciate the work involved. First, the links must be identified and ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/three-tools-to-help-create-roundup-posts/ http://sidehustleblogging.com/storytelling-tell-your-productsbrandservices-story-gary-vaynerchuck/   Photo courtesy of ODHD "I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while." In a (hopefully) creative twist, I'm using that overused apology to my own readers as a way of showing what not to do when you've been away from the keyboard. In reality, I'm just looking for a way to ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/how-to-apologize-for-a-writing-hiatus/ This is a guest post by WC, who is still in denial about the whole "You have to have a cool name to be a good blogger" thing. He stubbornly blogs about money and writing over at The Writer's Coin. If you're a blogger—regardless of whether you're starting out or have ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/user-testing-provides-valuable-feedback/ If you serve Adsense ads on your blog, you may have been surprised today to see your stats much lower than normal.  It appears ad reporting was frozen sometime this morning, and reporting for both impressions and earnings have yet to be updated.  This has happened before, and with all ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/something-wrong-with-adsense/ Most people blog because they want to share something--their opinion, their knowledge, or a bit about their daily life.  Others do it for more cathartic reasons; after all I have found writing to be very therapeutic and it often helps relieve stress to "get stuff of my chest" through the ... http://sidehustleblogging.com/five-surefire-ways-to-lose-readers/